His boyftrous club fo buried in the grownd But that the knight him at avantage fownd; How fhall I quite the paynes ye fuffer for my fake! Sp. F.2. B.I. C.VIII. ft.26. QUO-WARRA'NTO. (law Lat.) is a writ, that lies, where a man ufurps any franchife on the king. Termes de la Ley. QUO'RUM. n. --- A bench of justices." requires further explanation. This Formerly it was customary to appoint only a felect number of juftices, eminent for their skill and difcretion, to be of the quorum; but now the practice is to advance almost all of them to that dignity, naming them over again in the quorum claufe. Blackfone. “To QUOTE. v. a. - - - To cite." 2. To note. R. RAI ABBI'NICAL. adj. Belonging to the "RAB"BINS." RA They reject the oral law, and all rabbinical literature. Bolingbroke to Pope. RABBIT-SUCKER. n. A fucking rabbit. Hang me up by the heels for a rabbitfucker, or a poulter's hare. Shak. Hen.IV. P.I. RA'CE-HORSE. n. A fouth American bird. Several other Indians came off to the fhip, and brought with them fome of the birds called race-horses. Hawkefworth's Voyages. RACE-NAG. n. A race-horse. He is very tender and careful in preferving his credit, and keeps it as methodically as a race-nag is dieted, that in the end he may run away with it. Butler's Characters. "RAD the old pret. of read. Spenfer." Who, when as each of other had a fight, But never let th'enfample of the bad "RA'DISH. n. A root." F.2. B.III. C.IX. ft.2. If I fought not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish. Shak. Hen.IV. P.I. Yet euphrafy may not be left unfung, Shenflone. "RAFT. part. paff, of reave or raff. Spenfer. Torn; "rent." Had Johnson fearched his author, he certainly might have found raft as a past tense; but as a participle the prefent compiler has not been able to meet with it. Halfe furious unto his foe he came, And stroke at her with more than manly force, He raft her hatefull heade without remorse. "RAG. n. - - -” 4. People of the lowest class, F.2. B.I. C.I. f.24. Upon the proclamation they all came in both tag and rag. Tag, rag, and bobtail to Sir Harry's run. Bramfone. To RAILE. v. n. [from raier, old Fr. couler.] To ftream. RAP Large floods of blood adowne their fides did raile, Sp. F.2. B.I. C.VI. ft.43. Instead of reft thou lendeft railing tears. Ib. B.III. C.IV. A.57. Light was the wound; but through her amber hair Fairfax. The purple drops down railed, bloody red. RAILING. n. [from to rail.] Contumelious fpeech. Sir Guyon, grudging not fo much his might, As thofe unknightly raylings which he fpoke, With wrathful fire his courage kindled bright. Sp. F.2. B.II. C.VI. ft.30. "RAIN-DEER. n. - - - - A deer with large horns, "which in the northern regions draws fledges "through the fnow.” Their rain-deer form their riches, Thomfon's Winter. RAIN-RESO'LVING. adj. Pouring forth rain. The gaudy peacock boafts not in his train So many lights and shadows, nor the rainRefolving Iris, when the fun doth court her. "RAKE. n. 3. A trench dug by miners. B. Jonfon's Mafques. They dig the mines orderly in a parallel line, they call them the rakes. Hobbes. [In a fimilar fenfe to this, country people call cart-ruts rakes.] RANCK. adv. [Sax. protervus.] Fiercely. The feely man, feeing him ryde fo ranck And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare. ་ Sp. F.2. B.II. C.III. A.6. Say who is he, fhews fo great worthiness, That rides fo rank, and bends his lance fo fell? Fairfax. RANCK-SCE'NTED. adj. Having a rank fcent, For the mutable rank-fcented many, let them Regard me as I do not flatter, and Therein behold themselves. “RAPE. ». Shakspeare's Coriolanus. "5. A divifion of the county of Suffex anfwering to a "hundred in other counties," No fuch thing. Suffex has its hundreds as well as other counties; but it has also an intermediate divifion into Rapes, each rape containing a fmall number of hundreds. In fome counties there is an intermediate divifion between the fhire and the hundred, as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Suffex, each of them containing three or four hundreds a piece. Blackflone. An accurate furvey of the county of Suffex, divided into rapes, hundreds, and deanries, &c. Gough RA'SCAL, "RA'SCAL. n. REA "2. Rafcal deer are ftill mentioned for lean deer." Ufed REC Therefore, faire Sir, doe comfort to you take, Hath outrag'd you, and thrall'd your gentle make. 4. An officer annually appointed by the great Inns of Court out of their barrifters. This poft was formerly fo expenfive, that others were folicited to contribute to the charge of it. To RASH. v. a. [rafchiare, Ital.] To flice. We were Sent for in hafte by the benchers, to contribute "To REAR. v. a. Maine's City Match. [From ɲæɲan, Sax. moliri.] To get possession of. He in an open turney lately held Fro me the honour of that game did reare. Sp. F.2. B.IV. C.IV. ft.6. REBA TO. n. [from rebat, Fr.] A kind of ruff formerly worn about the neck: it seems to have required pinning. His reafon was, that a rebato was worn out with pinning T. Heywood's Woman killed with kindness. To arm the hand of childhood, and rebrace Chr. Brooke. Gray's Agrippina To REBUT. v. a. [from rebuter, Fr.] To drive back. But he, not like a weary traveilere, Their fharp affault right boldly did rebut. Sp. F.2. B.II. C.II. ft.23. To REBUT. v. n. [a law term, exemplified and explained in the example to next article REBUTTER.] "REBUTTER. n. An answer to a rejoinder.' Johnson has not here got his law leffon perfect; as may be seen by the following extract. The plaintiff may anfwer the rejoinder by a fur-rejoinder; upon which the defendant may rebut; and the plaintiff anfwer him by a fur-rebutter. Which pleas, replications, rejoinders, fur-rejoinders, rebutters, and fur-rebutters answer to the exceptio, replicatio, duplicatio, triplicatio, and quadruplicatio of the Roman laws. Blackflone. RECE'SSOR. n. [a term in painting.] The counterfeiting recefs. Thence it took fhadows, receffor, light, and hightnings. RECIPROCITY. n. Reciprocal obligation. Any degree of reciprocity will prevent the pact from being nude. Blackfione. She them befought, during their quiet treague, Into her lodging to repaire awhile To reft themselves, and grace to reconcile. REE "RECREMENTITIOUS. adj. --- Droffy." As fenfation will be the confequence of the ideal aliment to the mind, fo mufcular motion will be the expulfion of the recrementitious part of it. Reid's Inquiry. "RECTOR. n. "2. Parfon of an unimpropriated parish." A parfon is one that hath full poffeffion of all the rights He is fometimes called the of a parochial church. Blackflone. rector, or governor of the church. RECTORIAL. adj. Belonging to the rector of a parifh. Wood is in fome countries a rectorial, and in fome a vicaria! tithe. Blackfione. RE'CTRESS. n. [rectrix, Lat.] Governess. - B. Jonfon's Sejanus. Spenfer." Spenfer Them alfo gan affaile with outrage bold, And forced them, however strong and fout They were, as well approv'd in many a doubt, Back to recule. Ib. B.V. C.XI. ft.47. To recover from fickness "or labour." As comprehenfive as this interpretation may feem, it is not fuited to all the ufages of this verb in Spenfer. We fhould add 2. To find a remedy for.. "To RECU'RE. v. a. Sp. F.2. B.II. C.II. ft.33. To RECONNO'ITRE. v. a. [Fr.] To take a view ver. Eftfoones the others did the field recoure, When thofe gainst states and kingdoms do conjure, Who then can think their headlong ruine to recure?: F.2. B.V. C.X. ft.26. Pleafeth you pond your fuppliant's plaint,, Caufed of wrong and cruel constraint, Which I your poor vaffal daily endure ; And but your goodnefs the fame recure,, Am like for defperate dole to die.. February. [This fenfe is alfo more fuitable to the paffage in Milten, than that for which Johnson gives it for an example.] RED. n. [the adjective, by ellipfis, for] Red colour. Then backe againe. His borrow'd waters forst to red,bourse F.2. B.IV. C.IX. ft.15. REDISSEI'SIN. n. [In law ] A writ for a particular No lefs did Daunger threaten me with dread, 15. C.X. ft.58. [Though this verb itfelf is omitted in Johnson, he gives "RECOURED for recovered. Spenfer." Recour'd is alfo in Hughes's Gloffary, but has not been met with by the compiler in Spenfer's own writings.] fpecies of injury to the poffeflion of landed property. Where a man is diffeifed, and recovers by allize of Novel Diffeifin, and afterwards is again diffeifed by the fame difleifor, he fhail have against him a writ of redif feifin. Termes de la Ley. REDOUNDING. part. adj. [in Spenfer] Redundant. Redounding tears did choke the end of her plaint. F.Q. B.I. C.III. At.8.. REEF. v. a. [a fea term applied to fails.] To reduce in expanfe. To We REG We were obliged to take down our fmall fails, and reef our topfails; and haul close to the wind. Hawkefworth's Voyages. REEF. v. a. [a fea term.] A chain of rocks lying near the furface of the water. Hawkefworth's Nautical Terms. The people told me, that the whole ifland was furrounded by a reef. Ib. Wallis's Voyage. REEL. n. A reeling kind of dance. Drink thou; increase the recls. Shak. Ant. and Cleopatra. [The interpretation of this noun may be fufficiently juftified by the dance called a Scotch reel; and the cited paffage from Shakspeare is fuppofed to allude to fuch motion; as it is uttered on board a fhip.] To REEL. v. a. [in Spenfer.] To roll. And Sifyphus an huge round ftone did reele Against an hill. F.2. B.I. C.V. ft.35• TO REFLEX. v. a. [in Shakspeare] To reflect. May never glorious fun reflex his beams. Upon the where country you 'make abode. Of balmy medicine's various field afpires REFUSE. n. [from the verb.] Refufal. This fpoken, ready with a proud refuse Shenfione. REL The Court of regard, or furvey of dogs, is to be holden every third year, for the lawing or expeditation of mas tiffs. Blackstone. REGARDANT. adj. An epithet that formerly denoted a particular fort of villeins. Thefe villeins, belonging principally to lords of manors; were either villeins regardant, that is, annexed to his manor or land; or else they were in grofs, or at large, that is, annexed to the person of the lord, and transferable by deed from one owner to another. Blackfione. REGARDER. n. [from regardeur, Fr.] An officer of the king's foreft, fworn to take care of the vert and venison, and to view and inquire of all the offences committed within the foreft, and of all the concealments of them; and if the officers of the foreft do well execute their offices, or not. Termes de la Ley. "REGARDLESS. adj. Heedlefs; negligent." 2. Unheeded. Congreve. Yes, traitor, Zara, loft, abandoned Zara Is a regardless foppliant now to Ofmyn. REGIMENTALS. n. The uniform military dress of a regiment. REGISTERSHIP. n. The poft of regifter. The registerships are in the gift of the High Admiral. Spelman. "REGULAR. adj. 66 " 4. Inftituted according to eftablifhed forms." The regular clergy, and particularly the mendicant freres, affected a total exemption from all ecclefiaftical jurifdiction, except that of the Pope. Tyrwhitt REGULATION. n. "2. Method; the effect of being regulated." Of this fense no example is given; nor is it eafy to find any, where the word regulation would be perfectly. anfwerable to the meaning of method; which fhould more properly be rule. I may fafely affirm, that nothing is, under due regulations, improper to be taught in this place, which is proper for a gentleman to learn. Blackflone. REIF. n. The female of the bird called a ruff. "RE-IMPRE'SSION. n. A fecond or repeated "impreffion." I have caufed a re-imprefion of this tract. Clem. Spelman. Argantes was his proffer'd aid to fcorn. Fairfax. B.XII. To RE-IMPRINT. v. a. To imprint again. REFUSE me. [formerly] A kind of oath. God refuse me, Might I advise you now, your only course Were to lock up your wife. Webfler's White Devil. Thefe wicked elder brothers that fwear refuse them! Rowley's Match at Midnight. Refufe me if I did. Shirley's Gamefter. To REGA'LE. v. n. [from the noun.] To feast. I have been often folicited within these two years to reimprint this little treatise. Spelman. RE-INCRE'AST. part. adj. Increased again. Tho when they did perceave Their wounds recur'd, and forces re-increaft, Of that good Hermite both they tooke their leave. Sp. F.Q.B.VI.C.VI. A.15. To RE JOURN. v. a. To adjourn to a fecond hearing. You rejourn a controverfy of three-pence to a fecond day of audience. Shakspeare's Coriolanus. " TO RELATE. v. a. - - "4. To bring back; to restore. A latinism. Spenfer.” Abate Your zealous haft, till morrow next againe Both light of heven and ftrength of men relate. F.2.B.III. C.VIII. ft.51. RELATIONSHIP. n. [from relation.] The state of being related to another either by kindred, or any artificial alliance. Herein |